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19 Returne thou with all thy seruants. 15 So the

1 And it was tolde Ioab, Behold, the King King returned, and came to Iorden. And Iudah
weepeth and mourneth for Absalom. Therefore came to Gilgal, for to goe to meete the King, and
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the victorie of that day was turned into mourning to conduct him ouer Iorde. 16 And Shimei the
to all the people: for the people heard say that sonne of Gera, ye sonne of Iemini, which was of
day, The King soroweth for his sonne. And the Bahurim, hasted and came down with the men
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people went that day into the citie secretly, as of Iudah to meete king Dauid, And a thousande
people confounded hide them selues when they men of Beniamin with him, and Ziba the seruant
of the house of Saul, and his fifteene sonnes and
flee in battell. 4 So the King hid his face, and twentie seruants with him: and they went ouer
the King cryed with a loude voyce, My sonne Iorden before ye king. 18 And there went ouer a
Absalom, Absalom my sonne, my sonne. 5 Then boate to carie ouer the Kings houshold, and to do
Ioab came into the house to the King, and said, him pleasure. Then Shimei the sonne of Gera fell
Thou hast shamed this day the faces of all thy before the King, when he was come ouer Iorden,
seruants, which this day haue saued thy life and 19 And saide vnto the King, Let not my lorde
the liues of thy sones, and of thy daughters, impute wickednesse vnto me, nor remember ye
and the liues of thy wiues, and the liues of thy thing that thy seruant did wickedly when my
concubines, In that thou louest thine enemies, lorde the King departed out of Ierusalem, that the
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and hatest thy friendes: for thou hast declared King should take it to his heart. 20 For thy seruant
this day, that thou regardest neither thy princes doeth knowe, that I haue done amisse: therefore
nor seruants: therefore this day I perceiue, that if beholde, I am the first this day of al the house
Absalom had liued, and we all had dyed this day, of Ioseph, that am come to goe downe to meete
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that then it would haue pleased thee well. Nowe my lord the King. 21 But Abishai the sonne of
therefore vp, come out, and speake comfortably Zeruiah answered, and said, Shal not Shimei die
vnto thy seruants: for I sweare by the Lord, for this, because he cursed the Lordes anoynted?
except thou come out, there will not tarie one 22 And Dauid saide, What haue I to do with you,
man with thee this night: and that wil be worse ye sonnes of Zeruiah, that this day ye should be
vnto thee, then all the euill that fell on thee aduersaries vnto me? shall there any man die
from thy youth hitherto. 8 Then the King arose, thisdayinIsrael? fordoenotIknowthatIamthis
and sate in the gate: and they tolde vnto all the day King ouer Israel? 23 Therefore the King saide
people, saying, Beholde, the King doeth sit in the vnto Shimei, Thou shalt not die, and the king
gate: and all the people came before the King: for sware vnto him. 24 And Mephibosheth the sonne
Israel had fled euery man to his tent. 9 Then all of Saul came downe to meete the king, and had
the people were at strife thorowout all the tribes neither washed his feete, nor dressed his beard,
of Israel, saying, The King saued vs out of the nor washed his clothes from the time the king de-
hand of our enemies, and he deliuered vs out of parted, vntill he returned in peace. 25 And when
the hande of the Philistims, and nowe he is fled he was come to Ierusalem, and met the king, the
out of the lande for Absalom. 10 And Absalom, king said vnto him, Wherefore wentest not thou
whome we anoynted ouer vs, is dead in battel: 26
therefore why are ye so slow to bring the King with me, Mephibosheth? And he answered, My
againe? 11 But King Dauid sent to Zadok and to lorde the king, my seruant deceiued me: for thy
Abiathar the Priestes, saying, Speake vnto the seruant said, I would haue mine asse sadled to
ride thereon, for to goe with the king, because
Elders of Iudah, and say, Why are ye behind to thy seruant is lame. 27 And he hath accused thy
bring the King againe to his house, (for the saying seruant vnto my lorde the king: but my lorde
of al Israel is come vnto the king, euen to his the king is as an Angel of God: doe therefore thy
house) 12 Ye are my brethren: my bones and my pleasure. 28 For all my fathers house were but
flesh are ye: wherefore then are ye the last that dead men before my lord the king, yet diddest
bring the King againe? 13 Also say ye to Amasa, thou set thy seruant among them that did eate
Art thou not my bone and my flesh? God do so to at thine owne table: what right therefore haue
me and more also, if thou be not captaine of the I yet to crye any more vnto the king? 29 And
hoste to me for euer in the roume of Ioab. 14 So he the king said vnto him, Why speakest thou any
bowed the heartes of all the men of Iudah, as of
one man: therefore they sent to the King, saying, more of thy matters? I haue said, Thou, and Ziba